City, University of London - Music Department
2018-2019 Music Research Seminar Series
Room AG09, College Building
St John's Street
London EC1V 4BP
*FREE TO ATTEND, ALL WELCOME*
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Dr Scott McLaughlin (University of Leeds)
Composing for Material Indeterminacy [or] "what a piano wants to do"
https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/march/composing-for-material-indeterminacy-or-what-a-piano-wants-to-do
"Ahead of Zubin Kanga's performance of my piece for prepared-piano and
magnetic resonators, this talk looks at composition as the development
of strategies for structuring the indeterminate sounding of an
unstable instrument. I'll demonstrate how the piano is made unstable,
how this allows the material agency of the piano to come to the fore,
and how the piece is composed 'around' this agency."
Scott will give a half-hour presentation in AG09 17:00-17:30, followed
by a demo with Zubin the Performance Space 17:30-18:00.
Scott McLaughlin is a composer and improviser (cello, live
electronics) based in Huddersfield, UK. Born in Ireland (Co. Clare) in
1975. He studied BMus (Uni of Ulster), MA/PhD Uni of Huddersfield (PA
Tremblay, C Fox, J Saunders, B Harrison). Scott lectures in
composition and music technology at the University of Leeds; leading
the MMus Critical and Experimental Composition programme, and
co-directing CePRA (Centre for Practice Research in the Arts). His
research focuses on contingency and indeterminacy in the physical
materiality of sound and performance, to explore material agency and
recursive feedback systems in constraint-based open-form composition.
* Following this presentation, work by Scott McLaughin will be
performed by Zubin Kanga during 'Silver Screens/Steel Strings', which
is part of the City, University of London Concert Series. For more
information and ticket reservations, click here.
Upcoming Music Research Seminars at City, University of London:
27th March: Larson Powell (Professor of Film Studies, University of
Missouri - Kansas City): "Film Music Studies: Critique and
Reconstruction"
https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/march/film-music-studies-critique-and-reconstruction
3rd April: Elizabeth Eva Leach: "A Little Knight Music: Medieval
songs, tournaments and other forms of violence"
https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/april/a-little-knight-music-medieval-songs-tournaments-and-other-forms-of-violence
http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/music
http://blogs.city.ac.uk/music/
http://www.city.ac.uk/
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Christine Dysers
PhD Candidate
T +44 7520 670015
Department of Music
School of Arts and Social Sciences
City, University of London | www.city.ac.uk
